From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 17:45:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB6437B406 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:45:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.upan.org (ra.upan.org [204.107.76.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF5A43EB2 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikel.king@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (ool-18bbf825.dyn.optonline.net [24.187.248.37]) by ra.upan.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0O1j9Pl030670 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:45:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikel.king@ocsny.com) Message-ID: <3E309AA0.3020705@ocsny.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:45:04 -0500 From: mikel king User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just read an article on eWeek about SCO's new SCOx server platform thingie...and tucked away near the bottom of the first page is the follow statement: McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD infringed on the Unix intellectual property it owned. While claiming that it is hard to estimate how many people are technically in breach of its licensing terms, McBride said it's "very widespread and would generate a revenue stream in the millions of dollars. We know who they are." But he stressed that this is a "friendly move" by the company, which would be flexible in determining what customers who had been using the software in an unlicensed way for some time would be charged. And here's the URL; http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eTlj0BgcLa0DUm0tu80Av It looks to me like a really dirty move on their part and I sincerely hope this bite them so hard where the sun doesn't shine that the go misserably down the proverbial toilette. I honestly think this is a desperate move from a company on the threashold of going down... By the by I know this porbably isn't the right place to post this but...the more of us that know about what's coming the better. Here's a thought what about the intellectual property that the've enjoy at the expense of all of the BSD's? What would happen if the BSD world recinded the rights to TCP/IP and demanded compensation for it's use from say everyone? Ok sorry for the rant, just a bit po'd right now.... -- Cheers, Mikel King Optimized Computer Solutions, INC 39 West Fourteenth Street Second Floor New York, NY 10011 http://www.ocsny.com +------------------------------------------+ You may like them. You will see. You may like them in a tree. http://www.OpenOffice.org http://www.Mozilla.org +------------------------------------------+ GOAL: Microsoft free in 2003 +------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message